Not this one. Codemasters has, dare I say it, nailed it. Oh, sure, the people are a tad blocky, and the menus could use more polishing, but none of that matters once you get on the track. The audio is really good, once I dialed back the in-game music a tad.

Racing games run the gamut from arcade to sim, and several points in between. And that’s great. Sometimes I want to drift around a corner while explosions go off, scoring 2407 Kudos for style, and sometimes I want to be punished for not paying full attention by having the car pinwheel across the landscape. F1 2010 is definitely a sim racing game. There is no drifting, no explosions, no scantily clad women, no bolt-on miniguns. And that’s just fine. There is more than enough to keep you busy, but make no mistake, this game requires your attention.

Formula One cars are twitchy, powerful and fast, and in this game, you really get the feeling that you’re controlling a powerful, unruly beast. Especially as you up the challenge. Goose up the difficulty level above easy and expect to have your hands full.

Once you learn the car and tracks, you can push it through the right corners, with that extra power increasing grip instead of sapping it, but you push a little more speed into the car, and off you go. It takes some time, as I said, to learn the cars and tracks, but putting in the time results in a really exciting race experience.

F1 2010 includes all 19 tracks for the 2010 season, including a new track in Korea, as well as the venerable Japanese track Suzuka (returning to the F1 schedule after a couple years’ hiatus) and the granddaddy of them all (except the Nurburgring, of course) Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. Blasting through Eau Rouge (Spa’s famous “best corner in F1”) at top speed is thrilling and dangerous. One millisecond too soon and you’re off, one millisecond too late and you’re off. But get it right and you’ve hit racing nirvana.

When you start a race season, you begin with one of the lesser teams (No, you’re not just going to jump into the Ferrari, you’ve got to earn it.), and any one who watches F1 knows why this is hard. The lesser teams (Scuderia Toro Rosso, Force India, Lotus, etc…) are not very good, they don’t have a lot of money, they’re using last year’s cars, etc., so you start from a disadvantage.

Trying to chase down a pack of cars the other day, I had my engineer yelling at me that my engine’s too hot and I should keep the revs down. Keep the revs down? How am I ever going to chase down Lewis Hamilton if I’ve got to slow it down on the straights? It’s just a matter of getting faster on the track by shaving milliseconds here and there, just like, I imagine, a real F1 race.

There is a lot of tinkering you can do with car setup, and real engineering wonks are going to love this. You can also just jump in and work on learning the track and getting faster. It’s really up to you, but as I said, you’ll have to work at it.

F1 1 2010 is probably best for racing sim wonks, and even the “quick race” option is a handful. That doesn’t mean arcade racing fans should look elsewhere, just know that it will require some attention and time to get good.

But when you get good, holy smokes this is a fun game. Monaco. Monza. Hungaroring. Silverstone. Sepang. Interlagos. Spa. These tracks are racing circuit royalty. You and I are not likely to ever get a chance to drive a fast car around them, much less put in the time and money to do so.

Now, with $60 and an Xbox 360, you can experience that in your living room. And every crash doesn’t result in a $4 million bill and a trip to the emergency room.
So sit on your couch, fire up the TV and go racing. Helmet not required, but once you play for a while, you may want one anyway. Unleash your inner Stig.

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